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Saturday, July 12, 2014

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Do Some Semi-Random Research

It's Saturday Night -

time for more Genealogy Fun!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:1) We're going to do a little bit of Semi-Random Research tonight...2) Go to your family tree database of choice (you know, like RootsMagic, Reunion, Ancestry Member Tree), and determine who the very first person on your list of C surnames is. Or the first person on your list of J surnames. Or P surnames. Or any other name you need to research. Your choice!3) What do you know (or not know) about this person based on your research? It's OK to do more research if you need to - in fact, it's encouraged!4) How are you related to this person, and why is s/he in your family tree?5) Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook Status post or Google+ Stream post.

Here's mine:

2) The first person on my list of "P" surnames is Elizabeth P., the wife of Ichabod Sampson, who had a son named Ichabod Sampson in 1829 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, who married Harriet Augusta Seaver in 1862.

3) I have no birth, death or marriage information for either Ichabod Sampson the elder or for Elizabeth P., and I don't know Elizabeth's maiden name.

I looked in the FamilySearch Family Tree for the elder Ichabod Sampson and found:

So I think I've found decent sources for the maiden name of Elizabeth P. and for each of the vital events for both Ichabod and Elizabeth Packer (Thomas) Sampson, good enough for other researchers to find if they care to.

4) Elizabeth Packer (Thomas) Sampson is not related to me. Her daughter-in-law, Harriet Augusta Seaver, is my 5th cousin, 5 times removed. She is in my database because I "collect" Seaver folks.

I'm gradually working through my database to find these females with no maiden name, and parents of Seaver spouses with no information at all, and then finding leads to records to add vital events to my database. I hadn't gotten down to the P surnames yet!

2. I was going to start with the C since that was the first letter mentioned in the mission. However, I don't have any C's in this tree as of yet. So I decided to start with the first person in the Index.

3. I know she was born in Missouri. She was married twice. She had 2 children by first marriage and 3 by her second husband. She attended church and played the piano, great cook, and made clothes by sewing or crocheting. She had a stroke..

a. I don't know her first husbands first nameb. I don't know their marriage date.c. I don't know what happened to him.d. I need her obituary e. I need a death certificate on herf. I need a marriage certificate for her first husbandg. I just this week requested information from her daughters about her and their family.

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I am a native San Diegan, a graduate of San Diego State University, a retired aerospace engineer, a genealogist and a family guy.
My wife (Angel Linda) and I have two lovely daughters, and four darling grandchildren. We love to visit them and have them visit us.
Angel Linda and I love to travel to visit friends and relatives, to sightsee, to cruise or to do genealogy. Our travels have taken us all over the USA, to England, Down Under and Scandinavia.
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